Meaning of tussockland | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of ecological region of New Zealand where grasses of the genus Chionochloa predominate.

uncountable

Examples

“An excellent example concerns the conservation of the takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri). Takahe are large flightless rails that were believed to be extinct until their rediscovery in the subalpine tussockland of the murchison mountains of Fiordland in 1948.”

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